What is up with Dehydration?

[Iced Tea Blizzard]

Gorilla died of thirst. Next to a clean lake. And a sprinkler. And a water spigot 10ft to the right. In the middle of a thunderstorm. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1951959505

[Morphine]

Yeah same here, have a screenshot of an orangutan slowly dehydrating to death while sitting next to a fully functional water spigot. The enclosure had plenty more of them and a huge lake of clean water that she could access. She just refused to drink even when new water sources were placed directly next to her.

[Sinrisa]

Originally posted by Zoldyck:

Yeah same here, have a screenshot of an orangutan slowly dehydrating to death while sitting next to a fully functional water spigot. The enclosure had plenty more of them and a huge lake of clean water that she could access. She just refused to drink even when new water sources were placed directly next to her.

Maybe you guys need to place water pipes or troughs. Not all animals will drink straight from a lake

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Originally posted by Gondorian lady:

Originally posted by Zoldyck:

Yeah same here, have a screenshot of an orangutan slowly dehydrating to death while sitting next to a fully functional water spigot. The enclosure had plenty more of them and a huge lake of clean water that she could access. She just refused to drink even when new water sources were placed directly next to her.

Maybe you guys need to place water pipes or troughs. Not all animals will drink straight from a lake

So I haven't had all animals in my zoos yet, but quite a lot and I'm pretty sure that all animals will drink from a lake as long as it's clean. Would be kinda unrealistic if a wild animal would only drink from a trough.

When I got that alert I always just moved the animal to a water source and it was fixed a few seconds later, don't know why they refuse to drink sometimes.

[missoverdressed]

While I keep experiencing the same thing, I've found that putting the animal into the trade center and back into the habitat often fixes it (as well as resetting / replacing the water source or the animal). That doesn't make it less annoying though, hopefully they'll fix it soon..

[Sinrisa]

Originally posted by Hlaine:

Originally posted by Gondorian lady:

Maybe you guys need to place water pipes or troughs. Not all animals will drink straight from a lake

So I haven't had all animals in my zoos yet, but quite a lot and I'm pretty sure that all animals will drink from a lake as long as it's clean. Would be kinda unrealistic if a wild animal would only drink from a trough.

When I got that alert I always just moved the animal to a water source and it was fixed a few seconds later, don't know why they refuse to drink sometimes.

True. though, a lot of animals in the game probably have been adopted from other zoos and/or have been born in the zoo, so you cant really call them wild

[Kajsa_Kavat]

Originally posted by Gondorian lady:

Originally posted by Hlaine:

So I haven't had all animals in my zoos yet, but quite a lot and I'm pretty sure that all animals will drink from a lake as long as it's clean. Would be kinda unrealistic if a wild animal would only drink from a trough.

When I got that alert I always just moved the animal to a water source and it was fixed a few seconds later, don't know why they refuse to drink sometimes.

True. though, a lot of animals in the game probably have been adopted from other zoos and/or have been born in the zoo, so you cant really call them wild

Though they might be tame, most zoo animals are still considered wild. Most of them aren't and never will be domesticated.

[Iced Tea Blizzard]

Originally posted by Hlaine:

Originally posted by Gondorian lady:

True. though, a lot of animals in the game probably have been adopted from other zoos and/or have been born in the zoo, so you cant really call them wild

Though they might be tame, most zoo animals are still considered wild. Most of them aren't and never will be domesticated.

A wild animal learns where there is water and remembers how to find their way back to it. Same for plentiful food sources, or safe resting areas. This isn't really about domestication, just intelligence and instinct. Even ants can find their way back to a food source. And gorillas will be the smartest animals you can have in your Planet Zoo. There's no way they'd simply fall over and die by ignoring 4 different water sources.

At any rate, I just added 4 more water spiggots to their enclosure. Getting tired of all these bugs, to be honest. I'm too scared to start a large-scale zoo in case the save game gets bugged and becomes unusable. Sure, you can make blueprints of the enclosures you spend 8 hours decorating -- but they can't be placed within 60 feet of a path so they're pretty much useless.

[Roxxsmom]

I see this is an older thread, but I'm having this issue for the first time since purchasing the most recent expansion. Keep getting protesters because some my wolves are thirsty when I have a clean lake, a water spigot, and yes, they are within range of a working water station.

I have never had this issue in the game before, and I haven't noticed any animal species that don't drink from lakes if they are clean and accessible.

[Breesh]

Same problem here. Since the last update all my animals are hungry and thirsty. Even if they've been quarantined, they're still hungry or thirsty. They are starving despite being fed! I haven't been able to play for weeks because I do nothing but quarantine. And I'm talking about more than 4000 animals in my zoo. It's just not fun anymore. This bug is just annoying, but it should have been fixed a long time ago...

[Varick]

I just exited my Franchise zoo and had no problems with animals drinking from ground water/pipes or eating. I have all the DLCs but no mods. So, I doubt it is a bug with the game.

[Breesh]

I don't use mods and also have all the DLCs. I have the problem since the last update.